God can change the lowest to the highest, abase the proud, and raise the humble.

Avoid greatness in a cottage there may be more real happiness than kings or their favourites enjoy.

In the same [hospitable] manner that a Calabrian would press you to eat his pears.

Don't waste the opportunity.

Not treasured wealth, nor the consul's lictor, can dispel the mind's bitter conflicts and the cares that flit, like bats, about your fretted roofs.

Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt. (The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with them; as they go, they take many away.)

The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.